Flynn result may be days away: AEC

The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) says it could be several days before the result is known in the new central Queensland seat of Flynn, with the margin at 590 votes.

Labor's Chris Trevor had his lead narrowed significantly when 4,700 of the 7,000 postal votes counted yesterday went to the Nationals' Glenn Churchill.

Ann Bright from the AEC says if the count is still close, they might not be able to declare the seat until the end of next week when all the postal votes are in.

"If there's a few postal votes out there and the margin is still very close, and the number of those postal votes could impact on the result, we'll have to wait until we actually receive them so that we count them," she said.

"Then we just keep adding them on to the tally of votes already there."